How do you know if that shocking photo in your feed is real, or just another AI fake? Digital forensics expert Hany Farid explains how he helps journalists, courts and governments find structural errors in AI-generated images, offering four practical tips everyday individuals can use when facing the internet’s war on reality.
Dude, in the future, let’s say if there’s a scandal, we won’t even know if it’s real or not, because AI can easily generate a video that’s indistinguishable from reality, showing the beneficial truth. You’ve heard of Veo3, right? I think it will be fun :3
Not only will it create fake video and photos and articles, but it will also create fake comments, websites to back up the fake, and other articles leaching off of the original fake.
Digital media will become so unreliable that information itself will be at risk of being too untrustworthy to use or share.